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University of Southern California
SUMMER
TROJAN
VOL. LXIII NO. 16
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, T971
Librarian keeps college education trends in view
By PETER WONG
City Editor
Roy L. Kidman, the new university librarian, has considered several developing trends in higher education in planning for the library
system.
He believes that these trends, generally concentrated in undergraduate education, will lead to even greater emphasis on the resources of the library system.
Some of the trends that Kidman has taken into account in his planning:
• A more individualized course of study for students, in which every member of a group would use available resources (not limited to books) for an independent-study project.
“In such a course, however, a well-equipped library is indispensable,'’ Kidman said.
• Greater emphasis on students learning from each other, mostly from informal discussions. Kidman recalls that when he worked at UCLA’s law library, students went into nearby lounges and discussed several topics for hours, using library resources as references. “Maybe we should put more stress on this discussion process. After all, the professor does not possess all insights on any one topic,” he said.
• More and varied course offerings aimed at those not in the 18-to-21 age group, especially liberal arts courses for part-time students and professionals.
“In all of these trends, the individual’s access to knowledge as part of the learning process is even more important than before,” the librarian said.
“The student must be able to draw upon a wide spectrum of material — books, films, tapes — to get basic data that he can then synthesize. But often we divide these into categories simply for administrative ease — books in one place, tapes in another.”
While the librarian says “the library is not a replacement for the language laboratory,” he sees the library as a coordinator of various instructional tools, a place in which a student may have access to whatever he needs for the learning process.
However, Kidman is not suggesting that more films be shown in the classroom. “We want to make it possible for students to use books, films and tapes on their own in the library so that they can progress at their own speed,” he commented.
In a classroom situation, the professor must adjust his pace to the majority of students and pass over individual needs, but in a library a student can be free to work, Kidman said.
The new librarian said he would encourage professors to work with the library staff in ex-
perimental projects — perhaps with one group of students working with textbooks and lectures, another group with library media resources.
Kidman hopes for evaluation of such projects by both professors and students.
“Such evaluation would be difficult to test on a written exam. Many of the library's resources will bring subtle benefits to student users, and they might be hard to detect,” the librarian admitted.
“However, we re willing to have the library serve as a lab for such experimentation.”
Kidman also plans evaluations of the library's collections and staff operations.
“We hope our collections will help develop the impulse of the classroom experience. Our holdings must not only be large enough, they should also be current enough and intricate enough to interest students,” he said.
“But even with increases in the university’s book budget, we could not possibly keep up with all new books. Because of the publishing explosion, we will have a smaller and smaller percentage of the world’s output.”
To alleviate this problem, Kidman plans to have a library staff “that can give direction and make information available to students with the proper show of interest.”
Two changes are planned for the staff. One will be an emphasis on continued academic study by the staff, stressing special skills and interests, attention on multimedia approaches, and improvement of the collections of scholar-oriented books.
The other major change will be in the form of cooperative arrangements with other institutions on a regional, national and international basis, so that if information on some areas is not available from the USC library system, the staff can easily arrange to get it from another library system.
“With proper fiscal support and a capable staff, the library will be able to serve the needs of every student — potentially,” he said. “Not every student may choose to use library resources, of course, but we hope to make it (the library) very attractive so that students know it’s here.”
The librarian is optimistic for additional financial support in the 1970’s especially since the current master plan for the university. A Priority for the '70s, places the library first in importance.
Kidman is pleased with the support shown so far for library improvements by Friends of the Libraries, the Trojan Leagues in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, the President's Circle and members of the Board of Trustees.
(Continued on page 2)
USCs studio party
Association will host a Hollywood and Alabama alumni, students, partite eve of the USC-Alabama football im.
be Universal Studios’ Villa de at 6:30 p.m. will be followed by a
personalities from the entertainment world
SCaffold offers more services
Joel Rosenzweig, vice-president for programs and acting ASSC president, has announced the expansion of one longtime ASSC program and the beginning of another.
SCaffold, the nonprofit student book exchange run by the ASSC, will sell books all year long instead of just at the end of semesters, as was done previously.
In addition, Rosenzweig said that SCaffold would handle the following services beginning this fall:
Sale of rings;
Sale of graduation plaques;
Rental of refrigerators for dorms:
All charter flights, not only summer flights to Europe, but also new vacation packages for Christmas, Easter, and semester break;
Supervision of on-campus representatives for outside services. Two reps for auto agencies have already been included in SCaffold.
The acting ASSC president also announced the start of the ASSC Repertory Theater in September, under the Cultural Affairs Commission. The first
three productions planned are “Two for the Seesaw,” “Star-Spangled Girl,” and a night of one-acts.
The theater will be composed of students with interest in drama. Rosenzweig hopes that as soon as some expertise is maintained in the group, the Interarts Council will assume the theater’s management.
In another area related to student government, Jeff Bir-ren, speaker and temporary president of the independent Student Senate, outlined five general areas that the organization will work on in the fall, including an investigation of the Speaker’s Policy and several proposed curriculum reforms.
FINAL PAPER
Today’s issue of the Summer Trojan marks the final day of publication for the summer.
The fall semester’s Daily Trojan will begin publication with a special orientation issue on Wednesday, Sept. 15.
ENVIRONMENTAL LAB
Ecology studied
From cleaning up empty beer cans to mounting concerted political action in their locai communities, the nation's young people are becoming increasingly active in the war on environmental pollution.
Ecology's their thing.
Rarely, however, are teenagers found participating in research in the problem in laboratories of major universities.
Two attractive 17-year-old girls are the exception to that rule this summer at USC.
Michelle Burgen of Buena Park and Carolyn Poppell of Riverside are helping with sophisticated water pollution studies in USCs Environmental Engineering Laboratory.
They are among 17 high school students of outstanding ability working as research assistants in a 10-week summer program at the USC School of Engineering under auspices of a federal program funded by the National Science Foundation.
The NSF Student Science Training Program in Engineering Sciences provides training and experience in laboratory research for young people who have completed their junior year of high school. It is designed to stimulate them academically and prepare them for future college and university work.
Michelle and Carolyn are working on water quality control studies. Specifically, they're studying the primary processes of mercury becoming soluble in water of polluted lakes, rivers and oceans.
This is a necessary first step to determine how the metal becomes toxic and to develop standards and methods of detection, according to their supervisor, Addis Lockwood of Northridge, of the Laboratory. (Continued on page 3)
ECOLOGY'S THEIR THING
Apparently enjoying their work as junior research Laboratory are Carolyn Poppell (left) of River-associates in USC's Environmental Engineering side, and Michelle Burgen (right) of Buena Park.

University of Southern California
SUMMER
TROJAN
VOL. LXIII NO. 16
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, T971
Librarian keeps college education trends in view
By PETER WONG
City Editor
Roy L. Kidman, the new university librarian, has considered several developing trends in higher education in planning for the library
system.
He believes that these trends, generally concentrated in undergraduate education, will lead to even greater emphasis on the resources of the library system.
Some of the trends that Kidman has taken into account in his planning:
• A more individualized course of study for students, in which every member of a group would use available resources (not limited to books) for an independent-study project.
“In such a course, however, a well-equipped library is indispensable,'’ Kidman said.
• Greater emphasis on students learning from each other, mostly from informal discussions. Kidman recalls that when he worked at UCLA’s law library, students went into nearby lounges and discussed several topics for hours, using library resources as references. “Maybe we should put more stress on this discussion process. After all, the professor does not possess all insights on any one topic,” he said.
• More and varied course offerings aimed at those not in the 18-to-21 age group, especially liberal arts courses for part-time students and professionals.
“In all of these trends, the individual’s access to knowledge as part of the learning process is even more important than before,” the librarian said.
“The student must be able to draw upon a wide spectrum of material — books, films, tapes — to get basic data that he can then synthesize. But often we divide these into categories simply for administrative ease — books in one place, tapes in another.”
While the librarian says “the library is not a replacement for the language laboratory,” he sees the library as a coordinator of various instructional tools, a place in which a student may have access to whatever he needs for the learning process.
However, Kidman is not suggesting that more films be shown in the classroom. “We want to make it possible for students to use books, films and tapes on their own in the library so that they can progress at their own speed,” he commented.
In a classroom situation, the professor must adjust his pace to the majority of students and pass over individual needs, but in a library a student can be free to work, Kidman said.
The new librarian said he would encourage professors to work with the library staff in ex-
perimental projects — perhaps with one group of students working with textbooks and lectures, another group with library media resources.
Kidman hopes for evaluation of such projects by both professors and students.
“Such evaluation would be difficult to test on a written exam. Many of the library's resources will bring subtle benefits to student users, and they might be hard to detect,” the librarian admitted.
“However, we re willing to have the library serve as a lab for such experimentation.”
Kidman also plans evaluations of the library's collections and staff operations.
“We hope our collections will help develop the impulse of the classroom experience. Our holdings must not only be large enough, they should also be current enough and intricate enough to interest students,” he said.
“But even with increases in the university’s book budget, we could not possibly keep up with all new books. Because of the publishing explosion, we will have a smaller and smaller percentage of the world’s output.”
To alleviate this problem, Kidman plans to have a library staff “that can give direction and make information available to students with the proper show of interest.”
Two changes are planned for the staff. One will be an emphasis on continued academic study by the staff, stressing special skills and interests, attention on multimedia approaches, and improvement of the collections of scholar-oriented books.
The other major change will be in the form of cooperative arrangements with other institutions on a regional, national and international basis, so that if information on some areas is not available from the USC library system, the staff can easily arrange to get it from another library system.
“With proper fiscal support and a capable staff, the library will be able to serve the needs of every student — potentially,” he said. “Not every student may choose to use library resources, of course, but we hope to make it (the library) very attractive so that students know it’s here.”
The librarian is optimistic for additional financial support in the 1970’s especially since the current master plan for the university. A Priority for the '70s, places the library first in importance.
Kidman is pleased with the support shown so far for library improvements by Friends of the Libraries, the Trojan Leagues in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, the President's Circle and members of the Board of Trustees.
(Continued on page 2)
USCs studio party
Association will host a Hollywood and Alabama alumni, students, partite eve of the USC-Alabama football im.
be Universal Studios’ Villa de at 6:30 p.m. will be followed by a
personalities from the entertainment world
SCaffold offers more services
Joel Rosenzweig, vice-president for programs and acting ASSC president, has announced the expansion of one longtime ASSC program and the beginning of another.
SCaffold, the nonprofit student book exchange run by the ASSC, will sell books all year long instead of just at the end of semesters, as was done previously.
In addition, Rosenzweig said that SCaffold would handle the following services beginning this fall:
Sale of rings;
Sale of graduation plaques;
Rental of refrigerators for dorms:
All charter flights, not only summer flights to Europe, but also new vacation packages for Christmas, Easter, and semester break;
Supervision of on-campus representatives for outside services. Two reps for auto agencies have already been included in SCaffold.
The acting ASSC president also announced the start of the ASSC Repertory Theater in September, under the Cultural Affairs Commission. The first
three productions planned are “Two for the Seesaw,” “Star-Spangled Girl,” and a night of one-acts.
The theater will be composed of students with interest in drama. Rosenzweig hopes that as soon as some expertise is maintained in the group, the Interarts Council will assume the theater’s management.
In another area related to student government, Jeff Bir-ren, speaker and temporary president of the independent Student Senate, outlined five general areas that the organization will work on in the fall, including an investigation of the Speaker’s Policy and several proposed curriculum reforms.
FINAL PAPER
Today’s issue of the Summer Trojan marks the final day of publication for the summer.
The fall semester’s Daily Trojan will begin publication with a special orientation issue on Wednesday, Sept. 15.
ENVIRONMENTAL LAB
Ecology studied
From cleaning up empty beer cans to mounting concerted political action in their locai communities, the nation's young people are becoming increasingly active in the war on environmental pollution.
Ecology's their thing.
Rarely, however, are teenagers found participating in research in the problem in laboratories of major universities.
Two attractive 17-year-old girls are the exception to that rule this summer at USC.
Michelle Burgen of Buena Park and Carolyn Poppell of Riverside are helping with sophisticated water pollution studies in USCs Environmental Engineering Laboratory.
They are among 17 high school students of outstanding ability working as research assistants in a 10-week summer program at the USC School of Engineering under auspices of a federal program funded by the National Science Foundation.
The NSF Student Science Training Program in Engineering Sciences provides training and experience in laboratory research for young people who have completed their junior year of high school. It is designed to stimulate them academically and prepare them for future college and university work.
Michelle and Carolyn are working on water quality control studies. Specifically, they're studying the primary processes of mercury becoming soluble in water of polluted lakes, rivers and oceans.
This is a necessary first step to determine how the metal becomes toxic and to develop standards and methods of detection, according to their supervisor, Addis Lockwood of Northridge, of the Laboratory. (Continued on page 3)
ECOLOGY'S THEIR THING
Apparently enjoying their work as junior research Laboratory are Carolyn Poppell (left) of River-associates in USC's Environmental Engineering side, and Michelle Burgen (right) of Buena Park.